Three Friends, three lives, one location: San Francisco. Blending fairytale themes with contemporary situations, the book is a dazzling fun-packed story of three women at the sexual crossroads in their lives. Lydia wants to transform an intellectual bookstore owner into the sophisticated lover of her dreams; vivacious socialite Molly meets her match in journalist Harker Trevane, and Cassie - professor of literature - finally starts exploring her bisexual side. All three women set about exploring their sensual selves in that most liberating of US cities, discovering desires they never knew existed.